Dear John:

It is my experience that most of what we are is automatic, a quick and automatic reaction to existing pathways that are triggered, again and again, by people we interact with and life situations. to be authentic is to get a sense of distance from existing pathways, being able to notice them, identify them and instead of being identified with them, being able to CHOOSE from a distance. To choose before drowning in those pathways.

My healing started when I started to develop the ability, the skill to put a distance of time and emotion between the thinking-me, the choosing-me and the automatic-me.

anita